Taiwan's Election May Stay
Unswayed by Recent Woes

By

Russell Flannery Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 13, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A spate of corporate woes and financial-market turmoil in Taiwan in recent weeks isn't likely to have a major impact on the outcome of national elections here next month, according to a spokesman for the island's biggest opposition party.

Voters already have a clear idea of the causes of the tumult, and, at least for now, the opposition party doesn't expect a wave of defections among supporters of the ruling...